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Silicon coating properties March 24 2023

Silcolloy 2000: New CVD Coating for High Temperature Stability and Corrosion Resistance

Silcolloy 2000: New CVD Coating for High Temperature Stability and Corrosion Resistance Earlier this week, SilcoTek® launched a new coating, Silcolloy® 2000! A few proprietary process changes with...

Silicon coating properties January 13 2023

How Does SilcoTek Compare to Other CVD Coatings?

Since SilcoTek’s researchers first pioneered Silcosteel® for making stainless steel gas chromatography columns inert in the late 1980s, several alternatives have emerged for overcoming the analytical...

Silicon coating properties January 09 2023

How to Know if a CVD Coating is Still Performing

How do you know if your coating is still performing as it should? We get this question quite often and the answer is... not that simple. Each situation is different, which makes it difficult to...

LC & GC Chromatography November 11 2022

How Dursan Coated Hardware Optimizes HPLC Analysis

Dursan Coated Hardware Outperforms Traditional Approaches to Combating HPLC Issues The Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) is a yearly event that is held for scientists and students to share papers,...

Chemical Inertness October 21 2022

CVD Coating Improves Reliability of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Analysis

If you are performing an analysis using a sampling system, there can be many roadblocks in the way of obtaining accurate and reliable results. One of the most frustrating of these is adsorption,...

Chemical Inertness October 14 2022

How Dursan Bio-Inert Coating Enhances HPLC Applications

Get Information About the Benefits of Dursan Coated Analytical Flow Paths Dursan® is a functionalized silica-like coating (a-SiOX:CYHZ) that creates a barrier between your sample and the surface of...

Silicon coating properties October 07 2022

Boost Performance in Low Temperature Environments

Some people welcome the leaves turning, lower temperatures, and are enjoying their pumpkin spice lattes. If you're anything like me, this time of the year is always a drag. As the weather inches...

SilcoTek September 09 2022

Can SilcoTek Coatings be Removed and Re-Applied?

SilcoTek’s high performance CVD coatings are used to enhance material performance in a variety of demanding applications. Any coating from any supplier will eventually degrade in highly challenging...

SilcoTek August 26 2022

How to get Better Coating Performance at High Temperatures

SilcoTek® recommends customers who use coated stainless-steel parts in high temperature applications (over 450°C) to preheat the parts prior to sending them in for coating. This recommendation was...